New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-14

T. Poem BY the hoV - COZ ~ Ss a,Sins A"''' ~ - ~
8. March. from Lenors SYMPHONY. .......-...''.Ran
conferrng of Degrees esss, BY the President OF tho
H. B BSsSHsy the Biscp The DIOCESE
a. 'uO"0' 0'''' Orchestra
The music was under the direction OF Walter
Damrosch and after the orchestra had played
the professional from "Lohengrin,' the rev. Dr'
Dufie prayed closing with the Lords Prayer In
which the great audience joined General WOOL
ford then spoke briefly. As he began with rel
.rcnce to 1897 the students in the gallery cheerd
no loud and continuously that Dir. Woodford
said:
II should think from the cheers Of my young
friends that they were all there" Applause from
the audience in the body of the house and
C-ol-u-m-b-iar from the galleries Mr.. Wood
ford was then allowed to speak OF the reorganza
tion of the College a century 40, in the year
that the convention was called which 1ramed
The Constitution Of the United States. Ills refer
ence to the outl ok before the institution aroused
great cnthu ,iasm in all parts Of the house. lie
pictured the need Of university in New YORK
where the wealth Of the nation centres where
great collections Of books and art treasures are
being made and expressed the belief that Co
rumbia would be the ideal American university
Df the future.
MIR. COUDERT'S CENTENNIAL GRAFTON.
After Waener's chorale Awake my soul' had
been rendered by the chorus and orchestra,
general Woodf)rd introduced as the centennial
orator Frederic X. Coudert, Of the class Of 80.
who said in substance:
The brief period a single centurys life will not per-
init the and devoted OF Colunbias children
70 claim much her the OF age Time has not
woven it's ivy her walls is her record made
beautiful BY the lights and shadows OF Poetca tradition
The Imagination OF those who study her history finds
Mttle In lapse Of time to arouse enthusiasm TO
Justify that license Of audation which the uncertainties
Of remote antiquity make plausible and alluring.
Columbia has thus far barely passed the OF man
there now hving-there certainly lie
The wise learned Chevreul celebrated his centennial
year ago with all the ygor and zest OF youth long
ashe shall live taunt with this coincidence must
be consider ourselves scarcely adolescen
were not informed that the University Of Bologna
proposes to celebrate Its SOOth anniversary In 1883,
The question Of the American University Is living
practical full Of momentous moaning for the future
Of country shall hardly undertake to define In q
paragraph tue university that 10, or ought to be- the
Ideal OF our day and generation
The emirent orator and scholar who made Hsrvards
"What s university Z" and answered 1t by quoting
himself as having said thirty years before that "A UNI
versty IL place whore nothing useful taught
university 10 possible only where man may get his
livelihood by digging Sanscrt rootA-" lApplausel
am Of the boldness that might be i'm
pted 70 should attempt TO criticize epigrammatc
Expression opinion from Of the leaders OF our
tollecsusl world but do not hesitate say the
university OF the future u to DO an asylum ncapables
or homo for sophists. or shelter for Improbable
IL viii be for eur people a. ;5
Even respectable occupation a. the study OF San
oerit win suf1ce TO make the university
real instutton In America II its main objective point
the incubation Of useiess knowledge Whether know
edge Be useess might here DO questioned but